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'''Piper Halliwell''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[United States|American]] [[television program]] ''[[Charmed]]'', and one of the four leading characters featured during the series' run. The character is primarily portrayed by [[actor|actress]] [[Holly Marie Combs]], as well as a few other notable actresses during different stages of the character's life.<ref name="'70s"/><ref name="Sympathy"/><ref name="Forever"/> Initially Piper begins the series as the middle child of three sisters. However, at the start of Season Four she becomes the eldest of three sisters after the death of her older sister, [[Prue Halliwell]], and the discovery of a previously unknown fourth sister, [[Paige Matthews]]. |
'''Piper Halliwell Whyatt''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[United States|American]] [[television program]] ''[[Charmed]]'', and one of the four leading characters featured during the series' run. The character is primarily portrayed by [[actor|actress]] [[Holly Marie Combs]], as well as a few other notable actresses during different stages of the character's life.<ref name="'70s"/><ref name="Sympathy"/><ref name="Forever"/> Initially Piper begins the series as the middle child of three sisters. However, at the start of Season Four she becomes the eldest of three sisters after the death of her older sister, [[Prue Halliwell]], and the discovery of a previously unknown fourth sister, [[Paige Matthews]]. |
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Template:Infobox Charmed Character Piper Halliwell Whyatt is a fictional character from the American television program Charmed, and one of the four leading characters featured during the series' run. The character is primarily portrayed by actress Holly Marie Combs, as well as a few other notable actresses during different stages of the character's life.[1][2][3] Initially Piper begins the series as the middle child of three sisters. However, at the start of Season Four she becomes the eldest of three sisters after the death of her older sister, Prue Halliwell, and the discovery of a previously unknown fourth sister, Paige Matthews.
Biography
Early character history
Piper was born in 1973 to Patricia Halliwell and Victor Bennett. She was their second child. In the Season One episode "That 70's Episode", it is revealed that, on March 24, 1975, she was visited by a future version of herself. It was also on that day that Patty signed a pact with the warlock Nicholas to make him a ring that made him immune to her daughters' powers. After Piper's little sister, Phoebe, was born in November 1975, Penny bound their powers to keep Nicholas from collecting them and ultimately killing them. Growing up, Piper is the middle sister—meek, shy and very much the arbitrator between her sisters, Phoebe and Prue as originally witnessed in the first episode of the series “Something Wicca This Way Comes”.
Flashbacks from the Season Three episode “PreWitched” reveal that Piper was trained as an accountant and a chef. She worked as a bank teller after her college graduation, but was persuaded by Grams to resign. Right after Grams died in 1998, Piper worked as a private caterer and as a chef at a trendy bar/restaurant in downtown San Francisco called "Quake". She seems to be widely considered one of the best chefs in San Francisco.
Revelation as a Charmed One
In the pilot episode of Charmed, Piper and her older sister Prue have recently moved back into their childhood home, a Victorian manor that has been in their family for generations. Six months after the death of her grandmother Piper’s younger sister, Phoebe, moved back home where she eventually discovered the Book of Shadows in their attic. An event that lead to all three sisters learning that they were the culmination of an ancient prophecy that spoke of three sister witches becoming the most powerful witches known to walk the earth -- The Charmed Ones. As a new witch, Piper developed the power of molecular immobilization, the slowing down of molecules to the point where an object appears frozen.
Charmed Life
The middle sister
The first season of the series focuses heavily on Piper and her sisters learning about their witchcraft and using their magical gifts to protect Innocents from the supernatural evils that plague San Francisco. While Prue acts as the fearless lead witch and Phoebe is the eccentric and reckless spell-caster, Piper takes up the reins as the moral compass and voice of reason for the Charmed Ones. Unlike her sisters, Piper was the most reluctant to embrace her destiny as a Charmed One fearing that it might mean she was evil (“I’ve Got You Under My Skin”). During the initial season the main anatogonists for Piper and her sisters are warlocks, with the occasional demon appearing sporadically throughout the season. During her first year as a witch, Piper proves to be the sister most "unlucky in love". Her engagement with Jeremy Burns was abruptly ended when she found out that he was a warlock waiting to kill the Charmed Ones as soon as they received their powers. During season one Piper also seemed to always fall for men she cannot pursue a long term relationship with. A ghost, Mark Chao, captures her heart very early on during episode four of the season (“Dead Man Dating”) but once his death was avenged by Piper and her sisters, Mark moved on. Later she meets Leo Wyatt, a handyman hired to do odd jobs around the manor (“Thank You for Not Morphing”). She and Phoebe both compete for his affections, and although Piper wins the gentleman's heart, Leo turns out to be a "guardian angel" to the Halliwells and was forbidden from pursuing a romantic relationship with his "charge" (“Secrets and Guys”). The pair part ways, but not for long.
Season Two of the series begins with Piper and her sisters celebrating their one year anniversary as witches (“Witch Trial”). At the start of the season Piper opens up her own nightclub, which she aptly names P3. Early in the season Piper’s relationship with Leo ended due to the complications that developed because of the distance his responsibilities as a whitelighter put on their relationship. While pursuing the new business venture of owning her own nightclub Piper also pursued a new romantic relationship with her neighbor Dan Gordon. This lead to a storyline featuring a love triangle between Leo, Piper, and Dan. Between battling the weekly threat of demons and warlocks Piper’s main storyline during most of season two dealt with her constant struggle of choosing to be with either Leo or Dan, a decision which doesn’t become clear until the final half of the season when she chooses to be with Leo over Dan ("Murphy's Luck"). By the end of the second season (“Be Careful What You Witch For”) Piper and her sisters discover that the demonic attacks on their lives have not been random, but orchestrated by an evil demonic power known as The Triad.
The third season of the series sees Piper and Leo begin a tenuous journey down the road toward marriage. Also the newly discovered Triad sends a demonic spy and assassin after Piper and her sisters, a demon known as Belthazor who infiltrates their lives disguised as the human Assistant District Attorney, Cole Turner (“The Honeymoon’s Over”). While continually battling demons Piper along with her sisters eventually discover that their true enemy is a powerful demon known as The Source of All Evil and ruler of the demonic Underworld. It is he who desires their lives, powers, and their coveted Book of Shadows. After trials and tests to prove her equal dedication to her Charmed destiny and Leo, the pair are allowed to wed in front of family and friends at Halliwell Manor in the episode "Just Harried" (it should be noted it took three attempts throughout season three for the couple to wed, proving the third time is the charm). With her marriage came new threats, new powers, and new losses. As a result of the show's action-packed third season finale, “All Hell Breaks Loose”, Piper’s older sister Prue loses her life to the demonic assassin Shax.
The eldest sister
The unexpected loss of a sister during Season Four hits Piper and Phoebe hard. It proves more than anything that despite being the most powerful witches ever prophesied they are not invincible. Just weeks after Prue’s death Piper and Phoebe discover that, surprisingly, the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted in the season four premiere episode (“Charmed Again (Part 1)”). The discovery of a long-lost half-sister, Paige Matthews, gives rise to a possibility of recreating the Charmed Ones. With the addition of the youngest Halliwell – last name or not – Piper finds herself taking on the mantle as eldest sister and the most powerful of the Charmed Ones in terms of active power, potion-brewing ability, and her ability to strategize.
The death of Prue was especially difficult for Piper, who became the eldest sister and de facto leader, and as a result she has difficulty accepting Paige as a sister and friend prominently witnessed in the Season Four episode “Hell Has No Furies”. Slowly, however, the friendship forms and sisterly bonds ensue as the season progresses, allowing the Charmed Ones to grow in power and become strong enough to vanquish the Source of All Evil in three separate incarnations during the show’s fourth year. Upon fulfilling their destiny of vanquishing the Source, Piper and her sisters are offered the opportunity to give up their magical lives in exchange for actual normal ones – no magic, no warlocks, no demons, and even no Elders in the Season Four finale “Witch Way Now?”. After much discussion and the chance to do what they do best, protect innocents, Piper, Phoebe and Paige decline the offer and soon after Piper discovers she is pregnant with her first child.
Entering motherhood
After battling many more demons and some mythical creatures, as well as dealing with the growing powers of her unborn child, Piper is diagnosed with toxemia, during her third trimester ("The Eyes Have It") during Season Five. However, in the episode "The Day the Magic Died" her baby, Wyatt, is delivered safely by Paige and Phoebe in a home birth (to which Piper is opposed right up to the moment her water broke) at the manor. All are surprised to discover that the baby is a boy, and not Melinda, whom Piper had seen in a visit to the future ("Morality Bites"). Wyatt, however, is a prophesied, twice-blessed child with tremendous magical powers and the apparent heir to King Arthur’s sword Excalibur, (later discovered in the sixth season episode "Sword and the City") hunted by demons from the womb and as soon as he is born. Like any nervous new mother Piper was afraid to leave her baby when she and Phoebe had to find out who placed a bounty on him. She proved her strength as a witch to be reckoned with by vanquishing many demons and sending out a message that any demon who wished to harm her child will be promptly vanquished. Afterwards, she names him after Leo and Paige's last names.
During the season finale of the fifth season ("Oh My Goddess"), months have passed since the birth of Wyatt and the Charmed Ones meet Chris Perry, a Whitelighter from the future who comes back to help them defeat the ancient Titans – ancient witches-turned-Gods by the Elders. In a repeat of history, Piper, Phoebe and Paige are transformed into the Goddesses of Earth, Love, and War, respectively. While possessing this power, Piper has the ability to control all manner of nature, teleport to anywhere she can imagine, throw lightening bolts, and sense her sisters. She is also the most powerful of the Goddesses, ultimately being the one who destroys the Titans by opening a crack to the center of the earth and throwing them into it. While her sisters relinquished their holds on their powers, Piper's rage at discovering Leo's ascent to Elder causes her to hold onto it, throwing San Francisco into a hurricane-like storm. She confronts Leo in the heavens about abandoning their family, but eventually comes to understand that Leo's actions reaped the ultimate reward, and this is not something she can fight, given that most Elders were killed by the return of the Titans and Leo is needed to help restore order amongst them as a new founding leader.
Estrangement with Leo and second child
At the start of the sixth season Chris becomes the girls’ new Whitelighter and Piper attempts to live a life as a single mother ("Valhalley of the Dolls (Part 1)"). Piper and Leo separated and she begins to pursue relationships with mortal suitors, most notably a fireman named Greg who she dated for some time. Chris later reveals he came from the future ultimately to protect Wyatt from a dangerous evil force that will not reveal itself for a full year, a mission complicated by Leo's intense mistrust of him. In the episode "I Dream of Phoebe", Leo and Piper are set on the path to reconciliation when a demon uses the power of a genie to wish the Charmed Ones dead. Leo's connection to Piper saved the sisters as even though he and Piper are in a magically-induced sleep, Leo hears Piper's cries for help when her spirit begins to move to the afterlife and he heals her. Their relationship reaches a turning point in the episode "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father" when Piper and Leo become stranded in the ghostly plane with Leo shot by a Darklighter's arrow and no one around to heal him, their defenses finally come down. When Leo tells Piper that he still loves her, they end up having sex that night. After being freed, Leo finally realizes that he needs to take his place as an Elder and fully commit to that life, abandoning the life he was living with his family. He leaves his family to live their lives in the mortal world while he lives out his in the heavens. When Piper learns she is again pregnant, she feels that she can't tell Leo about their new son because he finally has accepted his new destiny.
During the haunting episode "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell", the truth comes out that the sisters’ latest Whitelighter, Chris, is in fact Piper and Leo’s second child whom she is carrying. Phoebe was the first to discover this and Leo was the last. Together, the entire family works even harder to aid Chris in finding out what great evil turned Wyatt into an evil tyrant in Chris' future. Piper had decided to go to Magic School, a safe place for young witches to develop their powers, while she was pregnant since unborn Chris does not have a protective force field, as unborn Wyatt did. While at the school demons can't attack her or young Wyatt while she carries out her pregnancy and tries to help identify the threat after her first-born. Leo discovers the truth about Chris, and joins in the hunt for the evil that corrupts Wyatt. This journey draws Piper and Leo closer together. In the second half of the sixth season finale, "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)" Piper goes into labor while the world functions under a spell that makes everybody happy, unable to take anything seriously. Chris and Leo are unaffected by it, but Paige and Phoebe are, as is the doctor caring for Piper during labor, which she is having severe complications with. It is revealed that Gideon, an Elder, is working with Barbas to corrupt Wyatt — actually, to remove him, as he is too powerful. However, this plan is doomed to fail: when Chris manages to interrupt the plan, he is killed for this. Leo ends up killing Gideon after Chris dies in front of him and Paige, who later relays the news to Phoebe. The spell is broken with Gideon's death, and the doctors manage to successfully deliver Chris.
Utopia and retirement
Season Seven, with the season opener "A Call to Arms", begins with introduction of the mysterious "Gathering Storm" and this force's manipulation of Leo. Piper tries to help a haunted Leo who killed a fellow Elder, as a result of the demon Barbas convincing Leo to kill a fellow Elder who he believed was after his family, just like Gideon. Some months later Piper cannot understand how Leo can make such a tremendous comeback from his grief of killing an innocent Elder, but she is willing to accept Leo back into her life once again, despite the fact that he tells her that he is an Avatar. With his Avatar kind, Leo and the sisters create a world of peace but it has deadly consequences in the episode "Extreme Makeover: World Edition".
But after the world of the Avatars fails, Leo has to deal with the Elders' punishment and he is once again taken away from his family to endure a trial. He has to determine if his destiny lies with his family or the other Elders. In the 150th episode, "The Seven Year Witch" Piper receives help in the form of Phoebe's past love, Cole. He helps her and Leo get back together for good (which also makes Leo mortal) and restores Phoebe's faith in love by proving that their (Piper and Leo's) love conquered all. Soon a new threat comes on the horizon, Zankou, a powerful demon imprisoned by the Source hundred of years ago who seeks to bring order to the Underworld and to destroy Piper and her sisters.
After months of fierce battles and even losing possession of the manor and the Book of Shadows, Piper and her sisters destroy Zankou and the Nexus in the season seven finale "Something Wicca This Way Goes". At the end of the episode Piper and the sisters seemingly die in the final battle with Zankou. The mortal world, the underworld and the Elders believe Piper and her sisters to be dead, while this is the sisters' chance to finally get a normal life.
Rewitched and the Ultimate Battle
In Season Eight Piper transforms her face and takes up the alias of Jenny Bennett, only her loved ones being able to see her as she was. However, Piper's new look matches someone else who was wrongly wanted for murder as featured in the episode "Run Piper Run". After clearing her look-alike’s name Piper has to change her look and get a new name, Jamie Bennett . While in disguise, Piper and her sisters take on a protégé, Billie Jenkins. While Billie helps with their demonic load, eventually Piper and her sisters realize that hiding their true selves is a mistake. After a plot that involves the Department of Homeland Security to explain her sudden return from the grave, Piper returned to her real name and old life in the amply titled episode "Rewitched".
Despite having been through hell and back in their relationship, Leo does not adapt to being a mortal married to one of the most powerful witches in magical history well. Even going to a magical marriage counselor doesn't turn out as well as they had hoped. Their counselor has them switch bodies in order to walk a mile in each other's shoes and hopefully mend some broken bridges. It works, and for a while, things are good in Piper's life.
In the tenth episode of the final season "Vaya con Leos", the Angel of Death comes to Piper to warn her that Leo's time is coming. While Piper figures out a way to prevent Leo's death, it involved having Leo frozen. An Angel of Destiny tells Piper and her sisters that they have another battle to fight and Leo's death would have motivated them, and specifically Piper, to fight it. Piper reasons that losing Leo with his return hanging on her success is a much greater motivator than just losing him. The bargain struck, the Angel of Destiny vanishes, taking the frozen Leo with her. Simultaneously, Billie is searching for her demon-abducted sister, Christy Jenkins.
Piper starts to film everything that goes on in the house so when Leo comes back, he can watch what he missed. She also avoids demon fighting, but when she and her sisters discover that Billie and her recently-found sister are the ones they have to fight, she is the most determined to take the battle on. As the magical community is turned against the Halliwells by the Jenkins sisters, Piper escapes with her sisters to the Underworld. In the penultimate episode of the final season Piper and her sisters team up with two demons and utilizing the power of the Hollow, the sisters vanquished the spirit-form remains of the Triad and turned against the Jenkins sisters, also possessed by the Hollow. The battle ends with the survival of Piper and Billie and the deaths of Paige, Phoebe and Christy.
The series finale, "Forever Charmed" shows that Leo is returned to her, and he stops her from murdering Billie with her bare hands, taking her to Phoebe's apartment, where Coop, materializes and is stunned to find that Phoebe is dead. Piper, however, is determined to get her sisters back, reasoning that they've conquered death before. She borrows Coop's ring, and through time travel summons her mother and Grams, and prevent the deaths of Phoebe, Paige and Christy, but with Christy alive, Leo is removed once more. Realizing Christy had manipulated her, Billie deflects her fireball aimed at the sisters, killing Christy. Leo is returned, and the family present — the sisters, Grams, Patty, Victor, Wyatt, Chris, Leo and Coop rejoice in their final victory. With the destruction of all the strong demons of the past, the sisters can finally have normal lives. Piper and Leo's marriage returns to peace and they soon have a third child, Melinda. Piper also opens a restaurant. The story ends with an elderly Piper reading the events of the past from the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter. After Piper leaves with Leo to rest, more children enter the manor and we get to know them as more of Piper's grandchildren. Piper's granddaughter closes the door with her telekinetic powers, ending the story of Piper Halliwell and the Charmed Ones.
Powers and abilities
Piper's inherited power is the power of molecular immobilization, also known as temporal stasis. This primarily gives her the ability to 'freeze' objects in motion by slowing down their molecular movement rate to such a point where they appear not to move. Her power is initially triggered by panic and Piper had to make hand gestures to cause things to freeze or unfreeze. If Piper's hands were tied, she'd be powerless.[4] Piper at first could only freeze everything in her immediate location (within the room she was in) and the freeze would only last for a few seconds. She later learned to freeze and unfreeze on command, and selectively choose parts of objects to freeze or unfreeze. She could also freeze and unfreeze certain objects and subjects (like every innocent in the room). This power would keep growing stronger so that Piper can freeze for longer, and in a larger range of area around her. The phrase temporal stasis has been confused as a misused word for this ability but it actually states what the ability does (temporal means over a period of time and or denoting time and stasis is a state of balance between forces (equilibrium), and inactivity). Early in the series it was established that Piper was unable to freeze "good" witches, however, this was contradicted occasionally in later seasons, such as when Piper froze Billie in "Hulkus Pocus".
Later, she developed the more offensive power of Molecular Combustion, or blowing things up. This power works by speeding up the molecules of the desired object to the point where they separate with an explosive action. It uses a similar hand motion as she does for freezing and thus, she was hesitant to use either power initially, not knowing whether her targets will freeze in place or explode into bits. As with freezing, Piper learned to master this power and can attack with precision.
Unlike Prue's telekinetic abilities, the limits on Piper's power are not determined by an object's mass. Even relatively new to her powers, she once froze a moving truck to prevent it from hitting a baby's pram. Rather, Piper's power of freezing seems to be limited by the area, regardless of how many objects are in it or their weight. When indoors, Piper's powers appear to be limited by the room she is in. Outdoors, it is unclear what her limits are, but in a magical trip to the future, she once froze an entire city block, with every object in it.[5] She was obviously very surprised by this, as if she had never demonstrated influence over such a large area before. Since this was an accident, it is unclear if that was actually her limit, or if she could freeze an even larger area through effort. She can freeze objects and people that are technically outside the room she is in, if she has a clear shot. When Phoebe was possessed by the Woogyman, Piper was able to freeze her while outdoors and Phoebe was still inside the manor because the door was open, giving Piper an unobstructed path to her.[6] She also once froze someone who was outside in front of the manor and she was inside, just by thrusting her hands through an open window.
Originally, both powers were reliant on both her hands (to do the blasting/freezing motion), and quite a few creatures (including good witches, ghosts and certain demons) are resistant or immune to her powers (For example, when she attempted to use her power on Cole Turner/Belthazor, all that she managed to do was send him flying back a few feet rather than actually destroy him). Piper has, however, learned to perform these feats with one hand (and on one occasion, she used a costume prop wand). For example, she once froze a roomful of jurors by only thrusting one hand into the room and gesturing, without actually seeing them (she was hidden behind a door). She later unfroze them in the same way.[7] She also once blew up a demon in P3, after freezing all the patrons, with just one hand. While Piper does usually need to see an object in order to blow it up (or at least have a fix on its location; she once blew off ropes, restraining her arms behind her back), her freezing power has never depended on a direct line of sight. She often freezes an entire area, including objects that she cannot see, or even know are present.
The immunity to her freezing powers may not apply to her exploding power. Prue theorized that since good witches were immune to her freezing power, they would be immune to her exploding power. That theory has never been fully tested. In "The Torn Identity", Piper is able to badly scar Christy Jenkins's arm using an application of her power, although it is uncertain whether Christy's morality played a part in her vulnerability to Piper's power.
Although Piper usually has to use hand gestures to activate her power, in one episode, Piper's anger at Phoebe and Paige caused her molecular combustion power to blow off the ceiling chandelier without a gesture.[8] Since her powers are based off of emotions, it is believed that Piper's combustion powers came around when she started getting more aggressive and confident.
Like the other Charmed Ones, Piper can also brew magical potions and recite/write spells. She is best at making potions, as predicted by Grams in 1997[9] before she died from a heart attack, because Piper is a natural-born and university-trained chef.
In contrast with Phoebe and Prue, Piper has never been interested in learning conventional means of fighting, such as martial arts kicks and punches, preferring to rely on her powers. As the use of either of Piper's powers would bring most physical confrontations to an immediate conclusion in her favor, there is little need for her to be adept at hand-to-hand combat, though she has been shown using some of her combat skills in some episodes.[10] She has also been seen using some martial arts skills, and also gymnastics in the show.
Romantic life
She has fallen in love with a ghost,[4] a banker, a construction worker, a fireman, a warlock, a beast and finally with her Whitelighter and husband Leo Wyatt. They broke up for some time because their relationship could not work due to their conflicting magical destinies. Piper then sought out a normal relationship with a mortal, her next door neighbor Dan Gordon for almost a year before reuniting with Leo. During their relationship, Dan remained oblivious to the fact that Piper was a witch. When he eventually learned the truth, he proved unable to handle the secret, so Piper had the information wiped from his memory, with the help of a genie.[11] Eventually the pair ended their relationship. Piper went on to reunite with Leo, while Dan moved away to pursue his career. In a past life, as P. Baxter (cousin of Prue's past life P. Bowen and Phoebe's past life P. Russell), Piper had already had to choose between Leo and Dan, and eventually married Dan's past life Gordon Johnson (and eventually bore Penelope Halliwell).[12]
Piper and Leo still had to deal with the consequences of their forbidden romance after getting back together. When the Elders issued an ultimatum about Piper and Leo's relationship, Leo proposed to Piper, who, after some hesitation, accepted. They tried to marry in secret,[13] but the Elders were told of their plans after Cole exposed them to the magical community and they took Leo away. When the Elders forbade Piper from ever seeing Leo again, Piper decided to go on strike from being a witch. But once she realized that she still had a job to do and she still had to save innocents despite her anger over Leo, the Elders sent him back, giving them a chance to prove that their relationship would not interfere with their jobs.
Leo and Piper were finally married by the ghost of her grandmother Penny in a special ceremony. The sisters' father Victor, Phoebe's half-demon boyfriend Cole Turner and Detective Darryl Morris attended the wedding, and the Elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift.[14] Their marriage has produced three children; Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Christopher Perry Halliwell and Melinda Halliwell.
But this was not to be the end of their struggles to have a relationship and have a magical life as well. Leo had to leave Piper and his son for a short time to be an Elder, but worked around it. After Leo had killed an Elder who was trying to capture his son Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Leo ended up seeing floating green heads and then, unfortunatly for him, ended up killing another innocent Elder called Zola.
Leo tried to get over this but was ultimatly turned into an avatar who corrupted the girls to create Utopia but this went wrong. After this is Season 8 (Veya Con Leo's) Piper learns that the Angel of Death was after Leo and so in an atempt to stop Death taking him a spell was cast and every man in the world was turned into Leo. But this back fired and Piper had to call down the Angel Of Destiny who said that she would take Leo and when the Ultimate Battle had been fought Leo would be returned to them. So with the help of a demon Leo was frozen and taken from Piper but he is later returned to her after the final battle.
Professional life
Piper originally worked as an accountant for a small bank in San Francisco before quitting her job to pursue her dream of being a professional chef. A few months later, Piper landed a job as a new chef under the tutelage of Chef Moore at a high quality restaurant Quake. Only a week or two pass before Piper's boss leaves Quake and she is promptly promoted to restaurant manager, a job that has her constantly working double shifts and makes her unhappy.
After quitting Quake,[15] Piper opens P3, a nightclub named as a tribute to the Power of Three and Prue, Piper, and Phoebe.[16] P3 is made popular by the appearance of Dishwalla, a hit group whose manager is in league with Masselin, a demon who feeds off of souls he keeps trapped inside of him. The Charmed Ones defeat Masselin and the manager is arrested on kidnapping charges, but P3 is established as a successful club.[17] P3 closes briefly after Prue's death, though it reopens when Piper moves on and accepts Paige as her sister. P3 is open for at least 7 years, though in the series finale we learn that Piper finally becomes a chef in her own restaurant, as she'd always dreamed.[3] Not much is said about what happened to P3 after Piper becomes a chef again.
Death count
During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper is shown to have clinically "died" 9 times.
Episode | Episode Name | Cause Of Death | Revival |
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1x22 | Deja Vu All Over Again | Killed by an energy ball thrown by demon Rodriguez. | After time was reset. |
2x12 | Awakened | A terminal disease. | Leo healed her when she was about to cross over. |
3x09 | Coyote Piper | Killed by Prue in order to get a spirit out of her body. | An alchemist revived her. |
3x22 | All Hell Breaks Loose | Killed by a crazy Wiccan practitioner, because she thought Piper was evil. | After time was reset. |
4x17 | Saving Private Leo | Piper was stabbed by ghosts from Leo's war days, then the ghosts squeezed her heart | Leo healed her before her spirit could move on. |
6x15 | I Dream of Phoebe | A demon wished on a genie for her to die. | Leo healed her when she was about to cross over. |
7x05 | Styx Feet Under | The Angel Of Death killed her and gave her the job of collecting souls. | The Angel Of Death returned to doing his job. |
7x07 | Someone to Witch Over Me | Killed by the demon Sarpedon. | Leo revived her after he became an Avatar. |
7x16 | The Seven Year Witch | After being fatally wounded by a demon's poison dart, she has to allow herself to die to reach out to Leo. | Wyatt healed her at Drake's request before she could cross over. |
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